Friends,
Last 2 weeks saw all of us glued to our television sets witnessing the outcome of the terror attack in Mumbai. We all watched in horror the unleashment of wanton and unprovoked terror attacks on our fellow countrymen.
We Indians have been witnessing such attacks from the past so many years and we have certain fixed reactions to them, we blame politicians, we blame the intelligence, we blame the security agencies and then in a few days we forget all about it.
This attack on Mumbai has shaken awake the citizens of Mumbai and they have woken up and said NO to the politicians, they have said NO to the laid back attitude and "Chalta hai, hota hai" attitude and are trying to rouse from slumber the various authorities and have tried to put in the message that no longer will they be mute witnesses of wantonness of any kind and they want a better and safer India.
As citizens of a resurgent India, we should think and act proactively. We should say NO when it is required. If we remain silent, we put across the message to the perpetrators of such heinous crimes that they have succeeded in their mission.
It is time that we think about this and put forward our feelings to our bretheren that we will and we shall prevail over these agencies of terror.
We at ALSOC have been deliberating as to how we can think and devise a response mechanism amongst us and other citizens and bodies so that we can react to such incidents.
It may be that the current attacks have not touched us personally, we may feel that it has happened in Mumbai and that Kolkata or Bangalore or Delhi or London is safe and we need not bother. But, we should look beyond the current and visualise and put ourselves in the shoes of the family members who have lost a brother or a sister or a spouse and then think how we would feel and react and what was lacking.
It is time that we ponder and give our ideas as to what we feel should have been done or should be done in situations of terror like these otherwise we shall remain but mute spectators and remain in our imaginary fortresses of safety.
Friends, we want your suggestions, thoughts, inputs, concerns so that we can plan and devise a mechanism or a plan of action to react in situations like these.
Please do spare a few moments and provide us with your inputs as a reply to this mail (we are in the process of setting up a blog on this).
We also urge you to share this mail with your friends, colleagues, acquaintainces so that we can reach out to all of them and get the feel of the pulse of others.
Nihil Ultra!
Last 2 weeks saw all of us glued to our television sets witnessing the outcome of the terror attack in Mumbai. We all watched in horror the unleashment of wanton and unprovoked terror attacks on our fellow countrymen.
We Indians have been witnessing such attacks from the past so many years and we have certain fixed reactions to them, we blame politicians, we blame the intelligence, we blame the security agencies and then in a few days we forget all about it.
This attack on Mumbai has shaken awake the citizens of Mumbai and they have woken up and said NO to the politicians, they have said NO to the laid back attitude and "Chalta hai, hota hai" attitude and are trying to rouse from slumber the various authorities and have tried to put in the message that no longer will they be mute witnesses of wantonness of any kind and they want a better and safer India.
As citizens of a resurgent India, we should think and act proactively. We should say NO when it is required. If we remain silent, we put across the message to the perpetrators of such heinous crimes that they have succeeded in their mission.
It is time that we think about this and put forward our feelings to our bretheren that we will and we shall prevail over these agencies of terror.
We at ALSOC have been deliberating as to how we can think and devise a response mechanism amongst us and other citizens and bodies so that we can react to such incidents.
It may be that the current attacks have not touched us personally, we may feel that it has happened in Mumbai and that Kolkata or Bangalore or Delhi or London is safe and we need not bother. But, we should look beyond the current and visualise and put ourselves in the shoes of the family members who have lost a brother or a sister or a spouse and then think how we would feel and react and what was lacking.
It is time that we ponder and give our ideas as to what we feel should have been done or should be done in situations of terror like these otherwise we shall remain but mute spectators and remain in our imaginary fortresses of safety.
Friends, we want your suggestions, thoughts, inputs, concerns so that we can plan and devise a mechanism or a plan of action to react in situations like these.
Please do spare a few moments and provide us with your inputs as a reply to this mail (we are in the process of setting up a blog on this).
We also urge you to share this mail with your friends, colleagues, acquaintainces so that we can reach out to all of them and get the feel of the pulse of others.
Nihil Ultra!
